Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] off to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
| 2 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 3 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 4 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 5 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 6 | I turned off to the right . |
| 7 | I set off to the sound of Mick trying to tune into his sports programme . |
| 8 | I continued for fifty minutes , alienating the audience more with every gag , until I walked off to the sound of my own footsteps . |
| 9 | I remember thinking how white and cold and still her face looked , without the breeze of thought or sentience , as I stumbled off to the tumult of the ramp . |
| 10 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 11 | I went off to the doctors , she said I had and I was upset |
| 12 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 13 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 14 | I dozed off to the sound of their voices droning through the warm afternoon . |
| 15 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 16 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 17 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 18 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 19 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
| 20 | Immediately after lunch , she dashed off to the kitchen and found one of the Trunchbull 's famous jugs . |
| 21 | She wanders off to the studio , erm , a room in a house , her mum and dad 's house , to answer the phone . |
| 22 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
| 23 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |
| 24 | All your horses are out , put your men up they walk round the ring and at seven o'clock you move off to the heath to train your horses . |
| 25 | Then she knuckled off to the back of the cage and Fifi followed , her eyes fixed on the banana although she was n't trying to snatch . |
| 26 | ‘ So you ran off to the sea ? ’ |
| 27 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 28 | In the car we bounded off to the reception at AMS , or Associated Medical Services , on Route 6 . |
| 29 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 30 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |